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U.S. Representative · Florida 14th District
Kathy Castor
DemocratDistrict D+5119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score55#135 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Kathy Castor’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2188 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0914
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 15 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 15 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 906, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 10 more.
- WeakHeritage Action 14 vs. House Democratic avg 1Heritage Action (119th Congress, higher = more conservative) scored this member 14; the House Democratic average is 1.5 (n=210). That is 13 points toward the Republicans.
Keeps them with Democrats · 0 signals
None of our measures place this member firmly with their party.
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 19.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMinority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on EnergyRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyMinority · 3rd in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Castor← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.434 is 0.04 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress14House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 7022Mystic Alerts ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 71
| Swing |
| H.R. 2449FUTURE Networks ActSummary on Congress.gov |